Maybe, deep down, the reaction to Episode One was just as significant in the decision to move the goal-posts. It's disappointing because, well, we really wanted to believe that they could do what no other FPS developer had ever done and turn out three episodes of a triple-A game in the space of a year, as was the original plan.īut when, over Tacos, you hear Robin Walker's admission that the reason Episode Two slipped was simply because "it wasn't good enough", delaying it was clearly the right thing to do. 'Fun' in that it's oh-so-typical of Valve to be so far off with its release date predictions for the follow-up again that you can't help but give them a cheeky wink every time a new date emerges. Is that a metaphor for Episode One? It's been both fun and slightly disappointing to rib Valve for the way in which its bold episodic experiment 'hit the buffers' as soon as it began in May of last year. “The work we have done so far should serve as a warning to criminals across Merseyside that we are pursuing you and there is no end to our determination to bring you to justice.Episode Two kicks off with Gordon Freeman climbing out of the twisted metal of a smoking train wreck. National Crime Agency senior manager Mick Maloney, said: “Merseyside Police and the NCA together are a very strong partnership. “It has been a very busy start for the OCP with some significant successes but we are determined to do more.” “Drugs and firearms so often go hand in hand and cause misery and chaos. There are also two other drugs prosecutions in the judicial system after OCP investigations and in a separate inquiry, a man was jailed for five years after admitting possession of a prohibited firearm and possession of ammunition.ĭetective Chief Inspector Paul Lamb said: “The OCP’s core mission is to protect the public and protect Merseyside from organised crime groups and offenders such as Paul While trying to blight it with their lethal commodities. The judge said he had been involved in crime for the majority of his life.Įnter email address This field is required Sign Up This field is requiredĪnother man currently awaits sentencing for conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin, while in recent weeks a man from Wallasey and a man from Knotty Ash were charged with conspiring to supply heroin, cocaine and cannabis. On Friday, he was jailed at Liverpool Crown Court after admitting possessing a shotgun when prohibited for life possessing a shotgun without a certificate and possessing prohibited ammunition. Officers moved in to arrest While, who in December 2007 blasted himself in the foot with a sawn-off shotgun as he tried to threaten a rival, as he ran from the house and threw a bag containing the shotgun over a fence into a neighbouring garden. On September 2 While, who is well known by organised crime groups (OCGs) across Merseyside was watched by OCP officers as he entered a property on East Prescot Road in Knotty Ash, Liverpool. Just 30 days later he was arrested by officers from the Merseyside Organised Crime Partnership (OCP) – a specialist unit comprising National Crime Agency and Merseyside Police officers.
Paul While (32) of Glen Way, Tower Hill, Kirkby, Liverpool, left prison in September where he’d been recalled after being arrested over a previous firearms discharge. A hapless gunman who once shot himself in the foot has been jailed for four years after he was caught with a shotgun just weeks after being released from prison.